Social Work Blog
APRIL 5, 2023
In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. And, according to its own brochure , the Plummer program encourages something called “concurrent planning” which further stacks the deck against families and in favor of foster parents who want to adopt.* Then it was back to the fearmongering.
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Stop Abuse Campaign
MARCH 15, 2022
It’s important to realize that Kayden’s Law provision of VAWA doesn’t make states do anything; it only provides them with a financial incentive to pass good laws and adopt good policies. We have to let state governments know that they must pass a Safe Child Act in order to protect children from abusive parents.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.
Social Work Blog
JULY 28, 2023
Because Senate leadership felt DRA should be more closely aligned with the broader voting rights advocacy movement, they decided DRA should be carved out as a standalone bill. DRA was originally a part of the For the People Act (HR-1) that was introduced in 2021.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. But government should never be allowed to become the Wellbeing Police.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.
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